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Re: convert AVI to iMovie editable file

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Too bad I didn't see this thread earlier. Quite possibly the best GUI-based video converter I've ever used is was called Visualhub, and is available for OSX. I bought it a few years ago, but it's now a free, open source project. If you don't want to deal with having to compile the source code in Xcode, just torrent it.
VisualHub is no more, (unfortunately) but the source code has been released to the public (as transcoder redux).

However, it is being rebuilt as "video monkey" at http://videomonkey.org and the developer just updated it to work with Snow Leopard. It's not quite as complete as Visual Hub was yet, but it looks like it will get there. And with what you described, it will do what you need right now.

BTW, both of these (Visual Hub and Video Monkey) use ffmpeg as their engines - they are basically GUI front-ends for that program. ffmpeg, though, is not for the faint of heart, so those of us that have Visual Hub still on their computers are glad that we do!
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